A few days ago my daughter and her children were visiting.? We were sitting at the dining room table when my daughter asked "What is that bird on the hummer feeder?".? ?Our nine year old grandson, who is interested in birds and bird songs, told her that it was a Chickadee.? Sure enough at different times both a Black-capped and Chestnut-backed Chickadee landed on the hummingbird feeder and really had it swinging.? I am not sure what they were doing.? The Anna's chased them off.? By the way, our grandson once spotted some Virginia Rails for us at Juanita.? That really got him hooked on birding.
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Hank Heiberg
Lake Joy
Carnation, WA
karenhankatyahoodotcom


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From: Caryn Schutzler <bluedarner1 at seanet.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 9:31 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Hummer/Song Sparrow face off

Busy morning in Wedgwood -

Just watched another interesting bird interaction from the kitchen -

A male Anna's buzzed around (quite close) a Song Sparrow perched in a vine maple - nothing too exciting but fun to watch. The Anna's forced the SS to retreat.?

Don't get between a hummer and it's nectar! :)

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